Contributors of articles

Peter Achterberg is an Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a member of the Centre for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS). His research mainly focuses on the effects of processes of religious, political, and cultural change on public opinion. His recent research has been published in, among others, Public Understanding of Science, International Political Science Review, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Steve Bruce was born in Edinburgh and educated at the Queen Victoria School, Dunblane, Perthshire. He studied sociology and religious studies at the University of Stirling. He taught at The Queen's University, Belfast, from 1978 to 1991 when he became Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has published extensively in the sociology of religion. Recent books include: Paisley, Secularization, Politics and Religion in the UK, and Why are Women More Religious than Men.

Brian R. Calfano is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University, studies media influence, heuristic reliance, and religion and politics. His work appears in Political Communication, Political Research Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, Political Behavior, and other journals. His is the co-author of (with Paul Djupe) God Talk: Experimenting with the Religious Causes of Public Opinion.

Ben Clements is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interests include religious change in British society, the impact of religion on political behavior and social attitudes, and public opinion towards foreign policy issues.

Paul A. Djupe is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Denison University, studies the social contingencies of citizenship. He is the coauthor with Christopher P. Gilbert of The Political Influence of Churches and The Prophetic Pulpit, and coeditor with Laura R. Olson of Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Interests in Community Conflict.

Justin Buckley Dyer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri.

Dick Houtman is Professor of Cultural Sociology at the Center for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS), Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. During the academic year 2012-2013 he is a visiting fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology. His principal research interest is changes in political and religious culture in western countries since the 1960s. Three recent books are Paradoxes of Individualization, Religions of Modernity, and Farewell to the Leftist Working Class.

Bettina Koch teaches Political Theory in the Political Science Department and the ASPECT PhD program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She has published on premodern and modern political thought both within the Western and the Islamic traditions.

Egbert Ribberink is a PhD student at the Centre for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His primary research interests include atheism, anti-religion, and the secularization of Western Europe.

Patrick Schoettmer is a Graduate Student at the University of Notre Dame. His interests include civic engagement, religious and racial mobilization in the US, and social networks.

Kevin E. Stuart is a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hans (J.P.) Vollaard is a Lecturer in Dutch and European Politics at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He has published before on Christianity in Dutch politics, as well as Dutch Euroscepticism, cross-border patient mobility, and political territoriality in the European Union.

Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester, works at the intersection of religion, politics and sexuality. Most recently, she is the author of why Europe is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and why American never will be) and Below the Belt: Religion, Sexuality and the American South, and editor of Situating Intersectionality: Politics, Policy and Power.

Contributors of book reviews

John Francis Burke is a Political Theorist who serves as the Executive Director of the Wolfington Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement at Cabrini College. His research focuses on Latino spirituality and politics, politics and religion, and multiculturalism.

Jonathan Hans Ebel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004. Professor Ebel is the author of Faith in the Fight: Religion and the American Solider in the Great War and the co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America. His current research focuses on the place of soldiers and war in American civil religion, and the religious history of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl migration.

David Fisher teaches ethics and war at Kings College, London, having previously held senior positions in the UK Ministry of Defence, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office. He is co-Chairman of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament and author of Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-first Century?, Morality and the Bomb, and co-editor of Just War on Terror?.

Brent Hege is an Instructor of Religion at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recent publications have appeared in Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte and Radical Philosophy Review. In 2010 he won the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, administered by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Benjamin Hertzberg is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University.  He researches and teaches political theory, public policy, and religion, and politics.  Hertzberg's current research explores the proper role of religion in democratic decision-making.  He received at Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University in 2011, where he was a Kenan Institute Graduate Fellow in Ethics and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies.

Leslie Goldstein is the Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware, Emerita.  Her books include Constitutional and Legal Rights of Women, 3^rd ed. (with Judith Baer, 2006); Constituting Federal Sovereignty:  The European Union in Comparative Context (2001); Contemporary Cases in Women's Rights (1994), Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate, ed. (1992); and In Defense of the Text:  Democracy and Constitutional Theory (1991).

Kathryn McClymond is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at Georgia State University. McClymond is a comparative historian of religion, with a special emphasis on Vedic and Jewish ritual; and author of Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice (2009) and Ritual Gone Wrong: Case Studies in Ritual Disruption (forthcoming). She is a steering committee member of the American Academy of Religion Comparative Studies in Religion Section.

Daniel Philpott is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  He is the author of Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (2012) as well as God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (2011), which he coauthored with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah.

George Soroka currently serves as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Government Department at Harvard University, where he is also completing his PhD in political science. He holds a master's degree in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard, as well as a master's in Liturgical Studies from Drew University. Geographically, his research focuses on Poland, Russia and Ukraine; thematically, he is interested in the intersection of religion and politics, as well as the uses contested historical memory is put to in structuring contemporary foreign policy discourses in the post-communist zone.

David Western is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Political Thought in Christ College, the honors college of Valparaiso University. His PhD is from Brown University. His current scholarship develops theory on the role empathy can and should play in political life, rooted in a qualitative case study of the Northern Irish peace process.